Big Government is eminently bribable. Big Business Amazon – is more than willing to do the Big Government bribing. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Washington, DC is an enormous fetid and festering Swamp. Filled to overwhelming with Deep State bureaucrats – issuing to crony Swamp Creatures in Pez-dispenser-fashion tens of thousands of awful crony deals.

If we are to begin unwinding this giant nightmare mess – we must begin somewhere.

“The Pentagon is reviewing whether Amazon Web Service created a conflict of interest when it hired a former Defense Department employee who once claimed he was ‘leading the effort’ to help the agency move its computing systems to the cloud, court records show.

“Deap Ubhi had worked at Amazon Web Services before joining the Defense Department and now is back at the company after less than two years – a career path that is now a point of contention in the competition for a $10 billion contract to build and manage much of the cloud computing services for the Pentagon.”

Hold on right there – did you get that?

The Barack Obama Administration created a sub-agency within the Defense Department (DoD) – the Defense Digital Service – in charge of purchasing contractor tech.

“(I)n a new lawsuit filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Oracle…alleged Ubhi had enormous influence over the contract, and that he pushed for the Pentagon to award a single contract for a cloud system, instead of several as some in industry have been advocating.”

This single provider thing for all of the DoD – makes zero technical sense. If you have one provider – and it goes offline – the entire DoD goes offline. That’s just stupid.

This single provider thing for all of the DoD – only makes sense when looking at it through an AWS cronyism prism.

Why would Ubhi split up the $10 billion amongst multiple providers – when he can hand it all to his once-and-future employer? National security and the lives of military men and women – be damned.

“While at the Pentagon, Ubhi publicly praised Amazon and repeatedly referred to himself as an ‘Amazonian’….

“‘Once an Amazonian, always an Amazonian. Thank you @Jeff Bezos,” he tweeted on Jan. 30, 2017, in response to Bezos pledging to fight President Donald Trump’s immigration stance.

“In a blog post while at the Pentagon, Ubhi wrote that he was ‘currently leading the effort to accelerate adoption of the cloud for the Department of Defense.’ He added that, ‘Having been a technical product person, a startup founder, an Amazonian, I deeply understand the broad-ranging impact this could have for the DoD.’”

If you’re Amazon – and you’re looking to land a $10 billion DoD contract – it certainly helps to have a self-declared “Amazonian” in charge of crafting the deal. A guy once in your employ – who will soon again be in your employ.